I’m retired, but when I was working the Rush Limbaugh progam provided a backdrop that got me thinking even while I was doing my technical tasks. It didn’t interrupt, it enhanced the pace of work, and the workday went faster, too.
NPR is cocaine for the mind; it welcomes the listener into a perfect liberal world where there are no guns, just unicorns & rainbows.
Having Rush on way back when helped me a little better mentally as well.
Wait, Wait Don't Tell me had left that perfect liberal world and went into one where Trump was pounding on the door eager to shut them down... and once again my electrolytes were thrown out of whack from all of their delicious tears of unfathomable sadness.